About TPD

TPD Insurance lessens this impact by paying a lump sum payment to help meet any on-going obligations and better plan for the future of your business.

While for most people the early death of an income earner would cause serious financial strain for those left behind, the financial impact would be just as serious if that income earner became totally and permanently disabled and unable to work for the rest of their life. In some cases the hardship experienced would be even more profound as ongoing daily living and medical costs for the disabled person could be significant. TPD Cover ensures you will receive a cash lump sum if you become totally and permanently disabled – and therefore unable to work – through injury or illness.

Standard Features

• Your cover can either be held on its own or added to your life assurance policy.

• If added to life assurance, you can select either an ‘accelerated benefit’ or a ‘standalone benefit’.

• The lump sum will be paid if you are so disabled through injury or illness that you are unlikely ever to be able to perform the duties of your own or any other occupation.

• An ‘own occupation’ definition is available for certain professional groups.

• A Partial Benefit of up to $75,000 may be payable on the loss of use of a limb or sight in one eye.

Accelerated or standalone benefits

• If you select the accelerated benefit, and a claim is paid, the amount of the claim will be deducted from the life assurance on your policy.

• If you select the standalone benefit, the payment of a claim will not reduce the life assurance under the policy.

Occupation includes unpaid home duties

This policy can include unpaid home duties as an occupation and therefore a house-person can also be covered. The policy requires that, as a result of your disability, you are confined to your principal place of residence.

Exclusions

You are not covered if the total and permanent disability occurs as a result of an intentionally self-inflicted act or injury. Financial planning benefit – If a benefit greater than $100,000 is paid, a further benefit of up to $2,500 may also be payable to reimburse the cost of a financial plan prepared by an Authorised Financial Adviser.

Future insurability option

You can increase your TPD cover without further medical evidence on the occurrence of certain events. These events include getting married, civil union, having children, taking out a mortgage, death of a spouse, partner or child, or stopping work to take full time physical care of a dependent relative, or your shareholding in a business increasing. Not available with Level Term.

Refer to policy documents for details.

Premium holiday option

You may opt to suspend cover and premiums in the event of redundancy, bankruptcy, tertiary studies or overseas travel. Cover can be reinstated without evidence of health within one year from the start of this option. The maximum sum assured under this option is $500,000. The Premium holiday option may be exercised once in the lifetime of the policy. Not available with Level Term.

Optional Benefits

Waiver of Premium Cover

While the insured person with the Waiver of Premium Cover is totally disabled, the premiums due on the policy after the waiting period ends will be waived and premiums paid during the waiting period will be refunded.

Life cover buy-back option

One year after the payment of an accelerated total and permanent disability benefit, you may repurchase life cover amount without having to provide any health evidence. The maximum life cover that can be repurchased is the benefit paid. Available with accelerated cover only.

Business future insurability option

Circumstances such as an increase in the value of your business can mean you need more cover. The future insurability option allows you to increase your cover without evidence of health. Financial evidence will be required. Not available with Level Term or Mortgage Protector.

All the above require payment of an additional premium.

Inflation protection

To ensure your benefit keeps pace with inflation, you can choose to have your policy cover increase each year by the greater of 2% or the Consumer Price Index, regardless of health. Each year we will advise you of the increased sum assured and new premium.

Where premiums are level and the indexation option has been selected, the sum assured will be increased by a fixed rate of 2% each year.

Continuation option

Allows the policy to continue with the same level of cover on a YRT basis at expiry of policy term or to take up another level term policy. Applies to Level Term only.

Disclaimer: This is a convenient summary of the key points of this insurance policy. It is not, and is not intended to be, a policy document. Details of definitions, benefits, standard exclusions/limitations, terms and conditions are contained in the official policy document which is available from your financial adviser. You should read the policy document carefully to make sure you understand exactly what cover is provided under each benefit. This document does not provide a personalised financial advice service.